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In 2021, we saw a push for more transparency in the delivery and pricing of healthcare.

Maryland hospitals are facing a significant workforce shortage—one the All-Payer model can’t solve.

The Hospital at Home program would provide certain patients with the option to receive acute-level care within their home, instead of at a hospital.

In this "5 Things" we have coverage of the oral health taskforce, and the latest conversations out of the Maryland Health Care Commission.

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor (DOL), Treasury and Office of Personnel Management on Sept. 30, 2021, jointly released a second interim final rule (IFR)...

The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor (DOL), Treasury and Office of Personnel Management on Sept. 30, 2021, jointly released a second interim final rule (IFR)...

At the end of September, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury (collectively, the Departments)...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On 1 July 2021, the United Stated Office of Personnel Management, and the Departments of the Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (collectively, the Departments) issued an Interim Final Rule 1 (the IFR) implementing the No Surprises Act, 2 enacted to ban surprise medical bills effective 1 January 2022. For out-of-network providers, the IFR bars health care providers who are not contracted to health plans from billing patient...

Tuesday, July 6, 2021 SUMMARY On July 1, 2021, the US Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Treasury and Labor, and the Office of Personnel Management issued an Interim Final Rule with comment (IFR) implementing portions of the No Surprises Act, legislation enacted in December 2020 that bars surprise billing beginning January 1, 2022. Under the law, payers and providers (including hospitals, facilities, individual practitioners and air ambulance providers) are prohibited f...

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 6:51am -- tim by Devon Green, VAHHS Vice President of Government Relations In a dire situation that is growing in severity around the country, our hospital emergency departments are overwhelmed right now—not with COVID patients—but with children and adults in mental health crisis waiting days and weeks at a time to receive proper and complete treatment. The mental health of Vermonters is the next public health emergency. VAHHS hopes to work with the legislature and state a...